LEXICON WEEK 4

1)Signature

In books and printing this is a set of eight pages that is folded to create a small booklet of 4 front and back pages. These can be combined to create larger books.

 

2)Hickey Picker

Hickey picker is a machine that picks up dust and dirt off pages in the printing process to ensure that there are no “hickies” or little flakes of paper left on the paper or printing press from the cutting of paper. If this dust isn’t picked off the ink won’t stick to that part of the paper and leave little dots or hickies.

Source:

http://printing.rotadyne.com/solutions/graphic-arts/rodel-hickey-picker-rollers/ 

 

3)DPI

This stands for “Dots per inch”. This refers to the amount of dots of color that is in a image. This is applicable to printing in how many dots will be laid down per inch of a printed product. The more dots, the higher the resolution. These dots will then be larger or smaller, or more saturated based on the color that is going to be printed. Colors are certain percentages of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black which are the colors the dots are printed in.

 

4)Bleed

Bleed is the amount of an image that is off the printed page. Incorporating a bleed into a design ensures that a printed image will stretch all the way to the edge of a page instead of having a white border that goes around it. Bleed is something that needs to be accounted for in the design process to ensure that images can cover the necessary area.